LBDA to produce a Global Collaborative Innovation Network

Eric Yu, secretary-general of Language Big Data Alliance (LBDA) and CEO of world Tone Communication Technology Co., Ltd. (GTCOM), spoke at LBDA’s 2017 annual conference in Guangzhou on April 8, on reflection at LBDA’s progress previously year and then into its future.

A worldwide organization with well-structured partnership

LBDA made much headway in every field it reached in the founding year of 2016.

In accordance with Eric Yu, LBDA continues to be moving fast on the goal of just as one international organization from the time its inception, striving to make itself better known and much more influential on earth. Its membership has covered some globally renowned universities such as University of Vienna, University of Geneva, and Gazi University.

Now LBDA has 138 members as well as the number is predicted to maintain growing.

LBDA Europe is scheduled to be established later this season to market resource-sharing, exchanges, and organization of international events among its member organizations worldwide.

A worldwide platform for collaboration and resource-sharingLBDA has run a lot more than 30 projects over the past year in these fields as speech recognition, machine translation, and analysis of huge data, said Eric Yu. Over these projects, universities and businesses worked together on translation assignments involving a total of 50 million characters.

A particular project marked a milestone inside the Chinese history of translation: 750 translators from 58 universities – LBDA members – completed the translation of subtitles for 50,000-minute videos within a week. More projects are saved to the way in which.

LBDA also seeks to facilitate the exchanges between its members in addition to their counterparts in other countries.

At FIT Congress 2017 to become located in Brisbane, Australia in August this season, LBDA – a premier partner with the congress – will invite representatives in the world’s top research institutes to discuss the future of the translation industry.

The year of 2017 will probably be dedicated to the “sharing and exchange of resources worldwide”. LBDA will build an online platform for its members to share and exchange resources collectively.

Moreover, the inaugural meeting of LBDA Europe is going to be located in Switzerland in September this season.

Europe’s leading universities and research institutes in such areas as journalism, psychology, neurology, medicine, language, and business will be the founding people in LBDA Europe, and joint labs on machine translation, speech recognition, big data and artificial intelligence (AI) is going to be established included in this. A number of key collaborative research findings will also be announced on the meeting.

LBDA Europe will really help foster collaborative innovation among Chinese joint labs as well as the leading universities and research institutes of other countries.